JP2005295127A - Abnormality transmission method using differential transmission circuit - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an abnormality transmission method that uses a differential transmission circuit to transmit both occurrence of abnormality and content of it. <P>SOLUTION: When an abnormality detecting circuit 9 detects occurrence of abnormality at a transmission side device 1 when transmitting signals using a plurality of differential transmission circuits, it makes a transmission line 4 of the differential transmission circuit to be floating state and transmits the abnormality content transmission signal to two transmission lines. If occurrence of abnormality is detected at a reception side device 3, reception circuits 3A-3C latch the abnormality content transmission signal from one of the two transmission lines of signal transmission lines 5A-5c. A judging means 13 judges abnormality based on the output of the reception circuit. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an abnormal transmission method using a differential transmission circuit capable of transmitting both the occurrence of an abnormality and the content of the abnormality using the differential transmission circuit.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-232799 shows a conventional abnormal transmission method using a differential transmission circuit. The differential transmission circuit used in this method outputs two types of transmission signals having opposite logical relationships from the transmission side device to the two transmission lines, and the two types of transmission signals are reversed in the reception side device. If the two types of transmission signals are normal, the two types of transmission signals are judged to be normal, and if the two types of transmission signals are not in the opposite logical relationship, the two types of transmission signals received are judged to be abnormal. Are configured so that only the receiving side device can use them. Conventionally, when a plurality of types of signals are transmitted using a plurality of differential transmission circuits, an abnormality has occurred in the transmission side device by not outputting two types of transmission signals to two transmission lines. This is an abnormal transmission method using a differential transmission circuit for transmission to a receiving side device. In other words, the conventional abnormality transmission method is an abnormality detection signal transmission method in which a differential signal output is set in a floating state for an abnormality or disconnection that has occurred on the transmission side, and the disconnection state is detected by a floating signal in the reception side device.
JP-A-2-232799

  However, in the abnormal transmission method using the conventional differential transmission circuit, there is a problem that even if the occurrence of the abnormality on the transmission device side is known, the contents cannot be understood.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an abnormal transmission method using a differential transmission circuit capable of transmitting both the occurrence of an abnormality and the content of the abnormality using the differential transmission circuit.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide an abnormal transmission method for detecting that enables latching a signal from one of two transmission lines and determining the content of the abnormality.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a method capable of determining the contents of an abnormality determined according to a logic state latched in a plurality of latch circuits provided in a plurality of differential transmission circuits. is there.

  According to the present invention, in order to transmit the fact that an abnormality has occurred in the transmission side apparatus and its contents to the reception side apparatus using the differential transmission circuit, the following is performed. First, the differential transmission circuit outputs two types of transmission signals having opposite logical relations to the two transmission lines from the transmission side device, and when the two types of transmission signals have opposite logical relationships in the reception side device. When it is judged that the two types of transmission signals received are normal and the two types of transmission signals are not in the opposite logical relationship, it is determined that the two types of transmission signals received are abnormal and only normal transmission signals are received. It is a transmission circuit for making it usable in a side device. When transmitting a plurality of types of signals using a plurality of differential transmission circuits, by not outputting two types of transmission signals to the two transmission lines, it is possible to indicate that an abnormality has occurred in the transmission side device. Can be transmitted to the device. That is, by not outputting two types of transmission signals to the two transmission lines, the two transmission lines are in a so-called floating state. Therefore, even if the logical state on the two transmission lines is determined by the receiving side device, it cannot be determined that the logical states of the two transmission lines are in the opposite logical relationship. As a result, the receiving apparatus can determine that some abnormality has occurred in the transmitting apparatus.

  However, the content of the abnormality cannot be determined only by this. Therefore, in the present invention, two of the plurality of differential transmission circuits are output in a state where two types of transmission signals are not output to the two transmission lines in order to transmit that an abnormality has occurred in the plurality of differential transmission circuits. The abnormal content transmission signal is output to each of the transmission lines with the same logical relationship. Even if two types of transmission signals are not output to the two transmission lines, the two transmission lines can be transmitted. Therefore, in the present invention, an abnormal content transmission signal for transmitting the abnormal content is transmitted to the receiving side device using the two transmission lines. Even when an abnormality content transmission signal is transmitted, the two transmission lines are output in the same logical relationship in order to maintain the transmission of the occurrence of the abnormality. If the logical relationship is the same, the receiving-side apparatus determines that there is an abnormality in the transmitted signal, and therefore can maintain the previously determined abnormality state as it is. In the receiving side device, when it is detected that an abnormality has occurred, the abnormality content transmission signal is latched from one of the two transmission lines of the plurality of differential transmission circuits (the logic state of the signal is stored). Since the same abnormal content transmission signal is transmitted to the two transmission lines, it is sufficient to capture the abnormal content transmission signal from one of the transmission lines. Then, the latched receiving device determines the content of the abnormality based on the logical relationship of the abnormality content transmission signal.

  In order to realize the present invention, the receiving side device may be provided with a plurality of abnormality determining means and a plurality of latch circuits corresponding to the plurality of differential transmission circuits. The plurality of abnormality determination means determine whether or not the two signals transmitted from the two transmission lines of the differential transmission circuit are in the opposite logical relationship, and the two signals are not in the opposite logical relationship. What is necessary is just to comprise so that it may determine that abnormality has generate | occur | produced in the transmission side apparatus sometimes. The latch circuit may be configured to latch a signal from one of the two transmission lines of the corresponding differential transmission circuit when the corresponding abnormality determination means determines the occurrence of the abnormality.

  The method for determining the abnormal content is arbitrary. For example, the content of the abnormality can be determined in advance according to the logic state latched by a plurality of latch circuits. In this case, the content of the abnormality can be determined based on the logic state latched by the plurality of latch circuits. That is, if the logic state latched by each latch circuit and the content of the abnormality are determined in advance, the content of the abnormality can be determined immediately only by determining the logic state latched by each latch circuit. Therefore, in this way, it is possible to easily and quickly determine the content of the abnormality.

  In addition, if abnormal transmission is performed in all of the plurality of differential transmission circuits as in the present invention, when the abnormality is transmitted, the abnormality is detected in all the differential transmission circuits, but the abnormality is transmitted. If not, an abnormality may be detected by one differential transmission circuit, for example. In such a case, it means that transmission is not performed in the differential transmission circuit, that is, a disconnection occurs in the differential transmission circuit. Accordingly, when it is not detected that an abnormality has occurred in all of the plurality of differential transmission circuits in the receiving side device, the differential transmission circuit (or connected to this differential transmission circuit) that has detected the abnormality has occurred. It is possible to determine that a disconnection has occurred in the transmission line in the transmitting device). Therefore, according to the present invention, not only the transmission of abnormal contents but also the detection of disconnection can be determined at the same time.

  Any device on the transmission side may be used. For example, an encoder that detects the rotation of a rotating body and outputs a plurality of types of detection signals may be used as the transmission-side device.

  According to the present invention, when it is detected that an abnormality has occurred in the receiving-side device, the abnormality content transmission signal is latched from one of the two transmission lines of the plurality of differential transmission circuits, respectively, and the plurality of latched abnormality is detected. Since the content of the abnormality can be determined based on the logical relationship of the content transmission signal, it is possible to transmit both the occurrence of the abnormality and the content of the abnormality using the differential transmission circuit.

  According to the present invention, in a circuit that transmits a plurality of signals on the transmission side using a plurality of differential transmission circuits, when a plurality of signals on the transmission side are abnormal or disconnected by one or more, each abnormality is differentiated by a plurality of differences. Since each of the dynamic transmission circuits transmits the occurrence of the abnormality and the content of the abnormality, and the reception device determines and displays the abnormality occurrence and the content of the abnormality, the abnormality diagnosis can be determined in a short time and the recovery can be accelerated.

  Hereinafter, an example of an embodiment of the method of the present invention will be described in detail using an example of a transmission and a circuit for performing an abnormality content detection method by an abnormal transmission method using the differential transmission circuit of the present invention with reference to the drawings. To do. An embodiment when applied to a transmission / reception circuit for signals A, B, and C of an encoder will be described in detail with reference to a circuit diagram. In the transmission circuit of FIG. 1, three types of signals (signal A, signal B, and signal C) output from the encoder are transmitted from the transmission-side device 1 to the reception-side device 3 using differential transmission circuits. Between the transmission side apparatus 1 and the reception side apparatus 3, three signal transmission lines 5A, 5B, and 5C configured by a set of two transmission lines 4 are laid.

  The transmission-side apparatus 1 includes three transmission circuits 1A to 1C provided corresponding to three types of signals (signal A, signal B, and signal C), an abnormality detection circuit 9, an abnormality content determination unit 11, and an illustration. With no encoder. In FIG. 1, three types of signals output from the encoder are shown as symbols A, B, and C. Since the transmission circuits 1A to 1C have the same circuit configuration, only the configuration of the transmission circuit 1A is shown in FIG. 1, and the configurations of the transmission circuits 1B and 1C are omitted. The transmission circuit 1A includes a differential output circuit 7, a NOT circuit 19, and two amplifiers 21 and 23 with gate circuits. The differential output circuit 7 outputs the signal A output from the encoder to the two transmission lines 4 of the signal transmission line 5A as two types of transmission signals (A, A ′) having opposite logical relationships. It is configured. Here, the two types of transmission signals having the opposite logical relationship means that a signal obtained by inverting one transmission signal at a logic level becomes the other transmission signal. Specifically, if one transmission signal is at a high level, the other transmission signal having the opposite logical relationship is at a low level, and if one transmission signal is at a low level, the other transmission signal is at a high level. Means that the two types of transmission signals have opposite logical relationships.

  The differential output circuit 7 performs a normal differential output operation when the abnormality detection signal (high level signal H) is not output from the abnormality detection circuit 9 and the output of the NOT circuit 19 is at the low level, Two types of signals having opposite logical relations are output to the two transmission lines 4 and 4. Further, when the abnormality detection signal (high level signal) is output from the abnormality detection circuit 9 and the output of the NOT circuit 19 becomes high level, the differential output circuit 7 stops the normal differential output operation and outputs two signals. Put the transmission line in a floating state. The outputs of the abnormality detection circuit 9 are input to the gates of the two amplifiers with gate circuits 21 and 23, respectively. The output portions of the amplifiers 21 and 23 are connected to the two transmission lines 4 and 4 of the signal transmission line 5A, respectively. When the abnormality detection signal is input to the gate, the amplifiers 21 and 23 are in a state in which the gate becomes high level and can be output. When the abnormality detection signal is not input to the gate, the gate becomes low level and cannot be output. It becomes a state. Therefore, only when the abnormality detection circuit 9 detects an abnormality, each of the amplifiers 21 and 23 displays an abnormality bit signal (high level or low level abnormality content transmission) for displaying the abnormality content determined by the abnormality content determination means 11. Signal) is received from the abnormal bit 0 terminal and is output to the two transmission lines 4 and 4 of the signal transmission line 5A. At this time, the amplifiers 21 and 23 output the abnormal bit signals having the same logical relationship to the two transmission lines 4 and 4, respectively.

  Similarly to the above, in the other transmission circuits 1B and 1C, when the abnormality detection circuit 9 outputs the abnormality detection signal, the abnormality contents output from the abnormality bit 1 terminal and the abnormality bit 2 terminal are displayed, respectively. An abnormal bit signal (high level or low level abnormal content transmission signal) is received and output to the two transmission lines constituting the signal transmission lines 5B and 5C in the same logical relationship.

  The reception side device 3 includes three reception circuits 3A to 3B provided corresponding to the transmission circuits 1A to 1C. Since the circuit configurations of the receiving circuits 3A to 3C are the same, only the configuration of the receiving circuit 3A is shown in FIG. The reception circuit 3A includes a differential input circuit 15 in which two transmission lines 4 and 4 of the signal transmission line 5A are connected to input terminals. One end of pull-up resistors R1 and R2 is connected to the input terminal of the differential input circuit 15. The other ends of the resistors R1 and R2 are connected to a constant voltage power source. The differential input circuit 15 outputs one signal A when two types of signals having opposite logical relations are input to the two transmission lines 4 and 4, and outputs the two transmission lines 4 and 4. When signals having the same logical relationship are transmitted above, no signal is output. In the receiving circuit 3A, the input terminals of the exclusive OR gate 25 are connected to the transmission lines 4 and 4, respectively. A low pass filter 27 is connected to the output terminal of the exclusive OR gate 25. The low-pass filter 27 outputs an abnormality A signal indicating abnormality detection. This abnormal A signal is also input to the gate of the latch circuit 29. The input terminal of the latch circuit 29 is connected to one transmission line 4 of the signal transmission line 5A. The exclusive OR gate 25 has an output at a low level when the two input signals are in the opposite logical relationship, and an output at the high level when the two input signals are in the same logical relationship. Therefore, when an abnormal bit signal (abnormal content transmission signal) having the same logical relationship is transmitted to the two transmission lines 4 and 4, the output of the exclusive OR gate 25 becomes high level, and the latch circuit 29 is connected to the transmission line 4 The abnormal content transmission signal (specifically, the logical level of the signal) transmitted to is latched. The latch circuit 29 outputs the latched signal as an abnormal bit 0. The same operation is performed in the receiving circuits 3B and 3C, and when the abnormal content transmission signal is transmitted to the signal transmission lines 5B and 5C, the latch circuits of the receiving circuits 3B and 3C also latch the abnormal content transmission signal, respectively. Output as abnormal bit 1 and abnormal bit 2.

  The judging means 13 is based on the logic level states of the abnormal A signal to the abnormal C signal detected by the receiving circuits 3A to 3C and the logical level states of the abnormal bit 0 to the abnormal bit 2 latched by the latch circuit 29. Occurrence of abnormality, its contents and occurrence of disconnection are judged. It should be noted that the abnormality content determination criteria and determination criteria in the abnormality content determination means 11 and the determination means 13 will be described in detail later in the operation description.

  Next, the operation of the circuit diagram of FIG. 1 will be described. Since the basic circuit operation is the same in each differential transmission circuit that transmits the encoder signal A, signal B, and signal C, the operation will be described focusing on the transmission of the signal A. First, the signal A is supplied to the two transmission lines 4 and 4 by the differential output circuit 7 that outputs the differential signal of the differential transmission circuit. Is output as a signal having a logical relationship opposite to that of the signal A). The differential signals A and A ′ transmitted to the transmission lines 4 and 4 are received by the differential receiving circuit 15 in the receiving side device 3 and output as the output signal A.

  When the abnormality detection circuit 9 detects that there is an abnormality in the encoder itself or the encoder signal, the abnormality signal output from the abnormality detection circuit 9 is input to the NOT circuit 19, and the output of the NOT circuit 19 becomes low level, that is, L level. Become. As a result, the differential output circuit 7 is in a floating state, and the differential signal of the differential transmission circuit is not output. In addition, the abnormal bit signal (abnormal content transmission signal) of the abnormal content output from the abnormal content determination means 11 is in a state in which the two AMPs with gate circuits 21 and 23 can be output by the abnormal signal output from the abnormality detection circuit 9. Then, the signals are output to the two transmission lines 4 and 4 as signals having the same logical relationship, and transmitted to the receiving side device 3. The abnormal bit signal (abnormal content transmission signal) is input to the exclusive OR gate 25 through the transmission lines 4 and 4, the output of the exclusive OR gate 25 becomes low level, and the abnormality is detected through the low-pass filter 27. Is output. At this time, in the receiving circuit 3A, the latch circuit 29 latches an abnormal bit signal (abnormal content transmission signal) from one of the two transmission lines 5 from the differential output circuit 15 and stores it.

  Similarly to the signal A, the signal B and the signal C are transmitted and received by the respective differential transmission circuits. The differential signals of the differential transmission circuits of the signals B and C are also transmitted and received by the differential transmission circuits as two types of signals having opposite logical relations to the two transmission lines. The two types of transmission signals are signal B and signal B ′ (signal B ′ is a signal having a reverse logical relationship to signal B), respectively, and signal C and signal C ′ (signal C ′ is the reverse logic of signal C). Output as a related signal). The signal B, the signal B ′, the signal C, and the signal C ′ are received by the differential receiving circuit 15 in the receiving circuits 3B and 3C, respectively, and output as an output signal B and an output signal C. When the abnormality detection circuit 9 detects an abnormality, the transmission circuits 1B and 1C also perform signal processing for transmitting the abnormality content similar to the above. That is, the transmission circuit 1B outputs an abnormal bit signal (abnormal content transmission signal) indicating the abnormal content output from the abnormal bit 1 terminal to the two transmission lines 4 and 4 of the signal transmission line 5B. The transmission circuit 1C outputs an abnormal bit signal (abnormal content transmission signal) indicating the abnormal content output from the abnormal bit 2 terminal to the two transmission lines 4 and 4 of the signal transmission line 5C. The receiving circuits 3B and 3C perform the same signal processing as the receiving circuit 3A. For example, if there is no disconnection in the signal transmission lines 5B and 5C, an abnormal B signal and an abnormal C signal are output from the receiving circuits 3B and 3C, and an abnormal content latched by each latch circuit from the receiving circuits 3B and 3C. Transmission signals are output as abnormal bit 1 and abnormal bit 2, respectively.

According to the present embodiment, it is possible to detect the abnormality of any one of the signal A, the signal B, and the signal C, a plurality of abnormalities, or an abnormality due to disconnection. In particular, the content of the abnormality can be determined by interpreting the combination of the logic levels of the abnormal bits 0 to 2 output from the receiving circuits 3A to 3C. The signal state for determining the abnormality content can be determined as the internal state of the transmission side and the reception side. Table 1 shows a list of abnormal codes in the transmission side apparatus when transmitting abnormal contents when actually transmitting three signals A, B and C.

  In Table 1, the leftmost list shows signal names. In the right column of the signal name, the signal state of each signal is shown. “A, B, C” means presence / absence of signals A to C. “Abnormal” indicates the logic level of the abnormality detection signal 9, which is low level “L” when normal, and high level “H” when abnormal is detected. "Abnormal bit 0, abnormal bit 1, abnormal bit 2" is an abnormal content transmission signal (abnormal bit 0 terminal, abnormal bit 1 terminal, abnormal bit 2) output by the abnormal content determining means 11 to indicate a predetermined abnormality. The logic level “L” or “H” of the signal output from the terminal is shown. “Output A / A ′, Output B / B ′, and Output C / C ′” indicate signal states of the two transmission lines 4 and 4 of the signal transmission lines 5A to 5C. In Table 1, ◯ indicates normal, N indicates indefinite, H indicates high level, and L indicates low level. There are nine internal states from the left in the table: normal, abnormal code 0, abnormal code 1, abnormal code 2, abnormal code 3, abnormal code 4, abnormal code 5, abnormal code 6, and abnormal code 7. In this example, the content of the abnormality is determined by the combination of the logic levels of the three types of signals output from the abnormal bit 0 terminal, the abnormal bit 1 terminal, and the abnormal bit 2 terminal and the signal states of the other signals. As specific abnormality contents indicated by the abnormality code, signal abnormality of the A signal to B signal, disconnection, and the like can be included.

Next, Table 2 shows a list of abnormality codes in the case of determining the abnormality contents in the receiving side apparatus.

  Also in Table 2, signal names are described in the leftmost list, and signal states and the like are shown in the right column. In the determination means 13, signals A, B, C, Abnormal A, Abnormal B, Abnormal C, Abnormal Bit 0, Abnormal Bit 1 and Abnormal Bit 2 output from the receiving side device 3. The presence or absence and the logic level are compared with those in Table 2 to determine disconnection or an abnormal code. According to Table 2, normal, A phase disconnection, B phase disconnection, C phase disconnection, abnormal code 0, abnormal code 1, abnormal code 2, abnormal code 3, abnormal code 4, abnormal code 5, abnormal from the left of the table Twelve types of code 6 and abnormal code 7 can be determined. The signal state of the abnormality code 7 means that all lines are disconnected.

  In the above embodiment, the method of the present invention is applied to abnormal transmission in encoder signal transmission. However, the present invention can also be applied to transmission of other signals.

It is a circuit diagram which shows the structure of the transmission circuit for implementing the method of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Transmission side apparatus 3 Reception side apparatus 4 Transmission line 5A-5B Signal transmission line 7 Differential output circuit 9 Abnormality detection circuit 11 Abnormal content determination means 13 Judgment means 15 Differential input circuit 17 Abnormality judgment means 19 NOT circuit 21,23 Gate Amplifier with circuit 25 Exclusive OR gate 27 Low-pass filter 29 Latch circuit 1A, 1B, 1C Transmitter circuit 3A, 3B, 3C Receiver circuit

Claims (5)

Two kinds of transmission signals having opposite logical relations are output from the transmission side apparatus to the two transmission lines, and the two kinds of received signals are received when the two kinds of transmission signals are in the opposite logical relations in the reception side apparatus. When the two transmission signals are determined to be normal and the two types of transmission signals are not in the reverse logical relationship, the received two types of transmission signals are determined to be abnormal, and only the normal transmission signals are determined. When transmitting a plurality of types of signals using a plurality of differential transmission circuits that can be used in a receiving side device, the transmission side is prevented from outputting the two types of transmission signals to the two transmission lines. An abnormal transmission method using a differential transmission circuit that transmits to the receiving side device that an abnormality has occurred in the device,
In a state where the two types of transmission signals are not output to the two transmission lines in order to transmit that the abnormality has occurred in the plurality of differential transmission circuits, the two of the plurality of differential transmission circuits Output the abnormal content transmission signal to each transmission line with the same logical relationship,
When it is detected that the abnormality has occurred in the receiving side device, the abnormality content transmission signal is latched from one of the two transmission lines of the plurality of differential transmission circuits, respectively, and the latched abnormality content An abnormal transmission method using a differential transmission circuit, wherein the content of the abnormality is determined based on a logical relationship of transmission signals. The receiving-side apparatus determines whether or not two signals transmitted from the two transmission lines of the differential transmission circuit have opposite logical relationships corresponding to the plurality of differential transmission circuits. A plurality of abnormality determining means for determining that the abnormality has occurred in the transmission side device when the two signals are not in a reverse logical relationship;
A plurality of latch circuits that latch signals from one of the two transmission lines of each of the plurality of differential transmission circuits when the plurality of abnormality determination means determine the occurrence of the abnormality; An abnormal transmission method using the differential transmission circuit according to claim 1. Predetermining the content of the abnormality according to the logic state latched in the plurality of latch circuits,
4. The abnormality transmission method using the differential transmission circuit according to claim 3, wherein the content of the abnormality is determined based on a logic state latched by the plurality of latch circuits.   When it is not detected that the abnormality has occurred in all of the plurality of differential transmission circuits in the receiving side device, a disconnection has occurred in the differential transmission circuit that has detected that the abnormality has occurred. The abnormal transmission method using the differential transmission circuit according to claim 1, wherein the abnormality transmission method is determined.   The abnormal transmission method using the differential transmission circuit according to claim 1, wherein the transmission-side device is an encoder that detects rotation of a rotating body and outputs a plurality of types of detection signals.